Dalai is a very smart monk! He is very lucky too. Had he confronted with a government like the US's, he wouldn't live today. He would accidentally run into some disease and never get out of hospital. If the CCP took a page from how the first nation peoples were treated, then Xizang wouldn't have the problem today. CCP's minority policy is too ineffective. First nation peoples can speak very good English through forced boarding schools and many of them were killed for numerous reasons. Many of those alive are rounded up to their shrinking reserves.
Dalai needs to thank CCP. Without CCP, how can the US led west welcome him? Who will fund him for his celebrity like world tours? Dailai only visits rich western nations and meets with the rich and the powerful in private. He is more attached to the West than to those living in Xizang!!